Richard Wester

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Richard Wester (* 1956 in Linz am Rhein ) is a German saxophonist and composer .

Life

From 1974 to 1982 Richard Wester studied music in Berlin . He has lived in Schleswig-Holstein since 1982 .

Wester worked as a band musician a. a. with Ulla Meinecke , Stefan Waggershausen , BAP and Hallucination Company , as a theater musician at the following theaters : Theater Tribüne , Grips Theater Berlin , Schauspielhaus Hamburg , Schaubühne am Halleschen Tor . He made studio and session music a. a. with Udo Lindenberg , Hannes Wader , Reinhard Mey , Herwig Mitteregger , Joe Cocker , Lydie Auvray and Tangerine Dream .

Independent artistic activity

From 1987 to 1988 Richard Wester took part in the Three Men in Snow program alongside Manfred Maurenbrecher and Thommie Bayer .

In 1988 he formed the instrumental combo Richard Wester and band . In the same year he founded the duo Maurenbrecher & Wester with Manfred Maurenbrecher, which started in 2004 with the Hey Du-Nö! occurred.

Since 1990 Wester has been represented with guest moderators on NDR , WDR and DLF . In 1995 he began nationwide multimedia installations, e.g. B. Rheinfels-Saga , The Castle of a Thousand Years etc. In 1997 he founded the annual Night of Songs , in which he previously organized concerts together with Nanette Scriba , Hannes Wader , Anne Haigis , Manfred Maurenbrecher , Pablo Ardouin , Ulla Meinecke , Stefan Stoppok , Knut Kiesewetter , Ina Deter , Ulrich Roski , Christina Lux , Klaus Lage , Etta Scollo , Pe Werner , Hans-Eckardt Wenzel , Nessie Tausendschön and George Nussbaumer . In 2001 he gave concerts with Chris Jarrett and Jens Fischer in the band No standard . Since 2001 he has organized Kultur im Glashaus , Wester's own experimental stage in fishing , (Schleswig-Holstein), in which u. a. the Young Night of Songs is carried out as a radio concert for WDR 5 and NDR. The cross-over concerts with Matthias Janz (church organ saxophone) and / or a small orchestra have also been taking place since 2001 . In June 2004 Wester organized the tour "Jasmin & Saxophon", a German-Turkish modern folk project with a seven-member band from Mercin (Southwest Anatolia). In the months of October and November 2004 he worked on Im Bunker - Room of the quiet voices . The installation with Gerrit Bekker and Karl Siebig from the fields of literature , visual arts , film and music could be seen in the bunker Trollseeweg in Flensburg . Since 2004 Wester can be seen in Mental Journey , a trio program with Ulf Meyer (guitar) and David Alleckna (bass). From January 2007 to June 2010, Wester presented his monthly program “Salonbaren!” (Personality Talk) on Radio Flensburg .

  • Since 2005 The Randy Newman Project , a trio program together with Manfred Maurenbrecher and George Nussbaumer.
  • Since 2006 Concerto , a trio program together with Rolf Hammermüller, piano and Fabian Ahrens, cello.
  • In 2007 Wester Medea composed for the Schleswig-Holstein State Theater. The ballet music is a commissioned composition for a twelve-person ensemble; the premiere took place in September 2008.
  • Since 2008 he has been playing crossover concerts in the Grenzgänger project with church music director Michael Mages (church organ), Fabian Ahrens (cello) and Fjol van Forbach (guitar).
  • Since 2009 Wester has been playing in the Dedicated Love-Songs program together with Ingo York (guitar), Rolf Hammermüller (piano), Stefan Warmuth (bass) and Chris Evans (drums).
  • In 2009 he was jointly responsible for the Borderland project , an international and interdisciplinary workshop project in Stettin / Szczecin (Poland) with young people from Denmark, Poland and Germany.

Prices

Compositions (selection)

  • Part composer of musical line 1 Grips Theater (LP / CD, film, theater)
  • Trying to Live , Documentary, Director: Johann Feindt (Bundesfilmpreis 83/84)
  • SFB, TV, youth magazine Moskito , 10 episodes
  • LP / MC Ostseerevue , a village makes you mobile, live revues in the Baltic Sea region
  • Youth Wars , documentary, director: Karl Siebig (Spiegel-TV, NDR TV, cinema)
  • Europe evenings , feature film, director: Claudia Schröder, with Eddie Constantin a. a.
  • Commissioned composition Red Indian Suite for saxophone and electronic orchestra, for ecumenical Kirchentag Flensburg, recording SWF 1
  • Cultural event Steinberger Wasserspiele , Baltic Sea area
  • Commissioned composition The world is out of joint Castle Magic 1994 for the Rhineland-Palatinate Cultural Summer
  • Commissioned composition, Museum Summer Schleswig-Holstein, Gottorf Castle
  • Brain Movie as a multimedia concept in cooperation with the Muthesius School, Kiel (video), 1995
  • Burgenzauber 95 The beautiful Margerita (commissioned composition Kultursommer Rheinland-Pfalz, 1995–1997 season)
  • Canal-Oper , directed by Karl Siebig, TV NDR, 1995
  • Boléro by Maurice Ravel and Symphony of Light in an arrangement for saxophone and electronic orchestra, Lübeck, Mannheim and Osnabrück with Tanztheater Regenbogen, Koblenz, commissioned composition for industry, 1996/1997
  • Respekt , a Renan Demirkan production, commissioned composition for saxophone, Turkish instruments and classical orchestra, Cologne 1997, Linz, Flensburg
  • 25 years SAP , commissioned composition for big band, saxophone and computer, multimedia live event, Mannheim and Amsterdam 1997
  • Blickwinkel , commissioned composition for ensemble, saxophone, computer and dance, Pinneberg district 1997
  • Burgenzauber '98 The heirs of the beautiful Margerita commissioned musical for the cultural summer of Rhineland-Palatinate, season 1998–2000
  • Rheinfels saga sound / light / theater installation commissioned by the cultural summer of Rhineland-Palatinate 1998, season 1998-2004, ongoing
  • Night energies , commissioned composition industry as a multimedia installation (music, light, dance, film) Flensburg 1998
  • We are the world , commissioned composition IG Metall Federal Congress 1999 (music, light, dance, film)
  • We shall overcome , revue on the history of political song, commission from IG Metall, Expo 2000, August 2000
  • The Castle of a Thousand Years , commissioned composition and interactive audience game, City of Cochem, July 2000
  • Akkum , composition and live concerts for saxophone, Turkish saz and Turkish ensemble in southwestern Anatolia, April 2001, April 2002
  • The jungle project , commissioned composition AUDI Flensburg, multimedia installation for band, storyboard, painter and festival of the senses , June 2001
  • Flotsam , CD and 11 lithographic sheets by Hans-Ruprecht Leiß in a limited edition, collection of 60 one-minute short titles, February 2003
  • Pictures through glass , glass house project May 2003, cross-over composition for saxophone, church organ, string quartet and guitar, multimedia dream pictures through back light, projections, black light and pantomime
  • In the bunker room of the quiet voices , composition for choir, guitar, piano, bass and saxophone, based on texts by Gerrit Bekker, autumn 2004
  • The jungle project, part 2 , commissioned composition AUDI Flensburg, multimedia installation for band, storyboard and the ballet company of the Schleswig-Holstein State Theater, October 2005
  • Carawan , commissioned composition IG BCE for ten-person ensemble and saxophone, Federal Congress 2005, Hanover
  • Medea , ballet music for the Schleswig-Holstein State Theater, commissioned composition for a twelve-person ensemble, premiere September 2008, Rendsburg
  • Dedicated love songs , new program together with Ingo York: guitar, Rolf Hammermüller: piano, Stefan Warmuth: bass, Chris Evans: drums

Discography

  • Richard Wester , maxi single 1986
  • Heimat , LP, CD, MC 1988
  • DAS DUO, Maurenbrecher and Wester live , CD 1990
  • Benefit for the children of Chernobyl Nastja Koschjurenko and Richard Wester, CD 1992
  • Brain Movie , CD 1994
  • hot , Nanette Scriba and Richard Wester, CD 1996
  • Symphony of Light - Live in Flensburg , Video 1996
  • Second home CD 2000
  • Maurenbrecher & Wester: Hey, you - Nope! CD 2001
  • Treibgut CD and 11 lithographic sheets by Hans-Ruprecht Leiß in a limited edition of 300 pieces in 2003
  • Pictures through glass CD in a glass box in a limited edition of 500 pieces, 2004
  • Concerto CD 2006
  • Songbook CD including booklet with sheet music and playback CD 2008
  • Medea CD 2008
  • Dedicated Love-Songs CD 2009
  • Ma'umba CD 2011
  • Saxophonic CD 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Wester, Richard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German saxophonist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz on the Rhine